TECH TALK
Intel Raptor Lake Core i9 Instability Problems
THE RACE BETWEEN AMD AND INTEL has heated up in the past few years as Ryzen processors have become increasingly competitive. The amount of headroom for overclocking has shrunk in response, and it seems motherboard vendors may have tweaked settings a bit too aggressively.
Jarred Walton
The result, according to numerous accounts on forums, has been out of VRAM errors and other instabilities. My particular PC has also experienced problems. While my own CPU issues date back over a year, it seems a number of games are triggering ‘out of VRAM’ error messages, particularly on Nvidia GPUs. But the graphics card has nothing to do with the games crashing to desktop.